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How much does it cost to back up solar with batteries?
This turns out to be a tricky question. Here's my current, partial understanding
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Links and short notes, 2025-03-18
The 150-year history of d/acc, a $120M progress fund, fertility on demand, 19th-century kids' sci-fi, the real lesson of Cassandra’s curse, giving the…
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Jason Crawford
We’re hiring a developmental editor
Come work with our brilliant fellows this summer/fall!
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Emma McAleavy
Links and short notes, 2025-03-10
A visible sonic boom, AI in SaaS, progress on permitting reform, fewer tornado deaths, the closing of the frontier, Rousseau and Kant vs. the Age of…
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Jason Crawford
Solutionism, part 2
Chapter 5 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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Links and short notes, 2025-03-03
Progress studies in university and high school, a positive supply shock for truth, the hinge of history, Dean Ball on AI liability, Kevin Kelly on the…
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February 2025

January 2025

Solutionism, part 1
Chapter 5 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
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The future of humanity is in management
AI can dramatically expand human agency
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Links and short notes, 2025-01-26
Atlas Shrugged and the irreplaceable founder, pumping stations and civic pride, thoughts on the eve of AGI, skyways for the suburbs, and more
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Jason Crawford
Links and short notes, 2025-01-20
New magazines and podcasts, the printing press and the Internet, the ultimate form of travel, grand plans for San Francisco, an AI tutor for Nigeria…
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How sci-fi can have drama without dystopia or doomerism
Eight ways to have conflict in a future we actually want to live in
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